1589 ordspråk av Scott McClellan
Scott McClellan
I am ready to move on. I've been in this position a long time, and my wife and I are excited about beginning the next chapter in our life together.
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I appreciate the question. And as I've said, I never speculate on personnel matters, period.
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I can understand how frustrated people are. It is a major catastrophe.
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I can't say with absolute certainty that that is everything. But that's what I looked into, and that's what we were able to learn.
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I cannot count how many times the president has said the intelligence was wrong.
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I consider it a victory for the American people.
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I didn't need much encouragement to make this decision, even though you all kept tempting me.
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I do expect he will talk about Iraq tomorrow in his remarks, and I do expect he will talk about the importance of continuing to meet the needs of the people throughout the Gulf Coast region. We have an obligation to continue making sure that their needs are met.
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I do expect that the President will say something at the beginning of his remarks today, at the conversation.
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I don't do book reviews, and I haven't seen the book.
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I don't engage in any of that. If there is anything to share, I will share it at the appropriate time.
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I don't ever get into discussing any specific operational activities or even alleged operational activities.
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I don't know about opening up a dialogue. I don't think that's a correct characterization of what we previously said.
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I don't know about that specific report that you reference. We believe it's important to value the contributions of our military chaplains that they provide to our men and women in uniform. Our men and women in uniform ought to be able to express their religion freely. And that's what our view is.
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I don't know about the specific memo. I've seen the reports, and I can tell you they are flat out wrong. The president of the United States in a very public way reached out to people across the world, went to the United Nations and tried to resolve this in a diplomatic manner.
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